The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 3-7, 2022
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, J.A.K., Evan Lian, Jeremy Nguyen, Bob Eckstein.
Daily Shouts Cartoonists: Liana Finck, J.A.K..
…and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook
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A Few Thoughts On Peter Arno, Born 118 Years Ago Today
It seems like a very long time ago, those years when Arno roamed the tri-state area. And yet, he did have a foot well-planted in the door of the modern age. Had he not passed away in 1968, at the relatively young age of 64, and stuck around just a few more years, he would’ve witnessed the likes of Jack Ziegler shaking up The New Yorker cartoon world. Imagine that: Arno and Ziegler sharing space in The New Yorker. That was the beauty of Harold Ross’s invention: the room was big enough to accommodate an array of personal sensibilities and styles. Arno’s style was the boldest, the one that easily filled a page. But his genius was more than style, it was substance meshed with great writing (captions he wrote, and captions supplied to him). He was, as Harold Ross called him, the magazine’s “first path-finder.”
Shown above: a self-portrait on the cover of his early 1930s “greatest hits” collection, Peter Arno’s Favorites.
Side bar: author Steve Stoliar, has brought to my attention that Arno and Charles Addams not only share a birth month, and a birth week, but back-to-back birthdays: Addams was born January 7th, 1912… Arno, January 8th, 1904. How about that!